Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin

Click Here to Read: Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin: YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage on the Wired website.

Vladmir Putin.  Image: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

Click Here to Read: The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education: Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university By George Packer on the Atlantic website on APRIL 25, 2024.  Available to those with a subscription or who do a free trial.

Protests in and around Columbia University in support of Palestine and against Israeli occupation. A side gate by the bookstore where the crowd is—inside and out.  Image: SWinxy  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Columbia University president rebuts claims she let school become a hotbed of hatred

Click Here to Read:  Columbia University president rebuts claims she let school become a hotbed of hatred: Antisemitic incidents are up 110% year over year in New York and 140% nationwide, a new Anti-Defamation League report finds  By Annie Ma and Collin Binkley on the NBC News Local Website on April 17, 2024.

Nemat Shafik Image:  UK’s Department of International Development  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels

Click Here to Read:  Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels by John Spencer on the Modern War Institute website on January 18, 2024.

Click Here to Read: Click Here to Read: The Road To October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified  by  Devorah Margolin, Matthew Levitt in the Combatting Terrorist Center Journal website on October/November 2023, Volume 16, Issue 10,

Click Here to Read: Section from The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Daniel S. Benveniste (IPBooks 2015) on W. Ernest Freud’s time in Palestine 19351936.

Image: United Nations Map.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

What Jews Mean to America

Click Here to Read: What Jews Mean to America By Meir Soloveichik on the NR plus website on February 22, 2024.

U.S. and Israeli flags are flown in preparation for a media event during Austere Challenge 2012 in Israel Oct. 24, 2012. Austere Challenge 2012 is a three-week bilateral exercise designed to increase air defense interoperability between the United States and Israel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Stephanie Addison/Released)